Lot 3814
1844-C $5 Liberty. NGC graded MS-63. An especially bold strike with grand eye appeal. This is a lovely, healthy-glowing MS63 example, whose full-color obverse and reverse add immeasurably to the beauty, beams and resonates with frosty luster. Struck with not quite the required mathematical precision by the dies at all of the stars, the main central areas are complete by an successful strike left after the rebound of the dies: we see full sharp hair waves above the brow and in the hair bun (with clear rounded beads in the hair); full wing and leg detail on the eagle, diminished only slightly by some flattening on the eagle's neck feathers. There is a light die break through the first A in AMERICA to the wing. The mintmark and all letters are nicely defined, indeed bold. Only 23,631 minted. Pop 2; none higher at NGC.
Estimated Value $28,000 - 32,000.
Ex: Ashland City.
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